Welcome to this week’s installment of Minnesota Wild Weekly, which will take a look at the past week of Wild hockey. It will include notes, the biggest takeaways, and, of course, the review of the week. Week in Review This was a week of extreme highs and extreme lows for the Wild. They went 1-3
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The Minnesota Wild finished their four games out west with two straight victories versus the Vegas Golden Knights. Despite losing the first two contests in San Jose against the Sharks, the Wild earned five of a possible eight points in the standings. It was a rocky start to the week, but ending it on a
Welcome to this week’s installment of Minnesota Wild Weekly, which will take a look at the past week of Wild hockey. It will include notes, the biggest takeaways, and, of course, the review of the week. Week in Review The Minnesota Wild were able to get back in the win column over the last week
To say that Victor Rask’s time in Minnesota has been underwhelming would be a bit of an understatement. After the Minnesota Wild acquired him from the Carolina Hurricanes in a one-for-one deal for Nino Niederreiter, Rask has 26 points in 89 games (0.292 points per game). For comparison, he had previously tallied 163 points in
It has been almost six years in the making for the Wild to finally see their budding star winger hit the ice. After being selected in the 5th round in the 2015 NHL Draft, Kaprizov has talked with three different Minnesota Wild general managers including Chuck Fletcher who drafted him, Paul Fenton, and current Wild
The Minnesota Wild have been spending a lot of time in the penalty box in this short season so far. There are a couple of players that seem to have trouble staying out of the box and have racked up some high numbers for such a short time. The Wild have gotten lucky they haven’t
Kirill Kaprizov has been one of the best forwards for the Minnesota Wild this season after finally making his NHL debut. Victor Rask has arguably just played his best string of games since he stepped on the ice for the Wild following the one-for-one trade that sent Nino Niederreiter to the Carolina Hurricanes. Mats Zuccarello
The NHL Trade Deadline is less than two months away on April 12. Now’s the time when teams should start thinking about what to do with their upcoming unrestricted free agents. The Minnesota Wild are one of those teams that will have to decide whether they’ll be buyers or sellers at the deadline. As of
The Minnesota Wild failed to register a single goal in a 4-0 defeat at the hands of the Los Angeles Kings. This game marked the first time the Wild hit the ice for an actual game since precisely two weeks ago, on Feb. 2. Minnesota Wild celebrating (Jess Starr/The Hockey Writers) The Wild had over
In today’s NHL rumors rundown, the Philadelphia Flyers got good news as some members of the team were allowed to get back on the ice. Meanwhile, are the Toronto Maple Leafs looking at a forward from the Nashville Predators? The Edmonton Oilers could face a difficult decision on their blue line when it comes to
When the Minnesota Wild drafted Kirill Kaprizov 135th overall in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, no one could imagine the impact he’d have in his rookie season six years later. At the start of the season, it wouldn’t be surprising that many casual NHL fans didn’t know who he was. For starters, when Kaprizov was
Every team has players that struggle to crack the lineup season after season. Then if they do make it, staying there is the next battle. The Minnesota Wild are no different, and this season there were two players who weren’t sure what their futures would be after training camp. Those two players were defenseman Carson
This season, Nick Bonino will be playing for his fifth NHL team, after being traded in October for a promising young player in Luke Kunin and an exchange of draft picks. While Bonino isn’t the type of player that can help your fantasy squad, he’s the kind of player that any coach in the league
Welcome to the first installment of Wild Weekly, which will be a weekly article from one of the Hockey Writers Wild writers. It will be a review of the past week’s Wild action and will provide notes, biggest takeaways, and of course, a review of the week. We will keep you up to date this
After the Minnesota Wild’s disappointing finish last season, they’ll be looking for redemption. One area that really needs to be redeemed is their offensive core – a number of their forwards are doing well but some need to work harder to meet expectations. Every player on the Wild roster could do something better to improve
Soon after the Minnesota Wild were eliminated from the 2020 playoff qualifying round, general manager Bill Guerin wasted little time in changing the roster, which included trading away Eric Staal to the Buffalo Sabres for Marcus Johansson. The Wild have been searching for help at center for years, which left many asking why would they
The 2020-21 NHL season is a go, and excitement levels are at an all-time high. For many fans, this is as good as any gift they will receive this holiday season. Of course, this season will be unlike any other. Teams will be playing only opponents in their division for the regular season and the
News broke last week that the Minnesota Wild will be without one of their top-six forwards for at least the start of the upcoming season. Winger Mats Zuccarello is expected to miss some considerable time due to torn ligament in his arm that recently required surgery. The damage is located in the same arm that